Title: The white aura
Written by: Shaun Witt
Story line...
For the past couple of nights, Ryu had been waking up from nightmares. The very same nightmare he had night after night. But this latetes nightmare was the wierdest.
The dream...
Ryu found himself trapped in some sort of webbing and was unable to move, It was like he was completly paralized. He also felt like someone was crawling through his mind and there was nothing he could do to stop them.
Ryu felt afraid of what was happening to him. As hard has he could try to keep the unknown intruder out of his mind he could still feel them clawing deeper and deeper into it.
Then right before him appered a figured bathed in light. It was a young women smiling at him. She softly spoke to him, "Be you Hanyou or be you Youkai, my blood still flows through your veins. It will protect you if you let it. All you have to do is have faith."
Ryu woke up in a cold sweat and when he looked down, he noticed his hands had a faint white aura around them for a few seconds before vanishing. Concerned as to what was going onto him he made a mental note to vist the head priestess at the priestess school.
Ryu went ahead and got up to get dressed for the day. Ryu then headed downstairs for breakfest. Soon after finishing off his meal Maechen walked in with orders from Sesshoumaru.
"Lord Ryu I have Orders from Lord Sesshoumaru for you." Maechen said.
'Hand them here." Ryu replied.
Ryu took the orders and glanced over them. Some of Sesshoumaru's scouts had reported that one of Naraku's generals was int he middle of setting up a breeding hive for his Poisonus insects. The hive is being gaurded by a demon spider lady known only as Widow.
Ryu reacted to this bit of news by placing his left hand over the place where his jewel was. Maechen noticed the shocked look in his lords eyes and was concerned.
"Something wrong my lord?" he asked.
"I need you to call Inuyasha, Kagome and Sango here for a meeting." Ryu said in reply.
A couple hours later the three of them showed up at Ryu's house and were shown into the meeting room. Ryu had asked them all to sit down and then started the meeting.
"What is this about?" Sango asked.
"Naraku has sent one of his Generals to a town south of here to set up a breeding hive for his poisonus insects. I want you three to come with me to destroy it and take out this general." Ryu replied.
"Who and what is this General?" Kagome asked.
"This General is a Demon spider lady only known as Widow." Ryu replied placing his hand over his side again.
"Something wrong?" Sango asked worried.
"I had a run in with her before. She nearly stole my jewel away from me when she captured me before." Ryu replied.
"Your afraid to face her again aren't you?" Inuyasha chuckled.
"Yes. I was lucky last time Sesshoumaru had sent in back up to get me out of there." Ryu said.
"So when do we leave?" Sango asked.
"As soon as you all gather your things up. Sango I have a list of supplies I need you to get before we leave." Ryu said.
"Yes, sir." Sango said .
With that said and done everyone was dismissed and went to gather there things and any supplies they needed. Ryu walked out of themeeting room to grab the things he needed.
That was two days ago...
Kagome woke up from her rest and looked over at Sango taking care over Ryu. Kagome asked, "How is he doing?"
"The Jewel is keeping him alive but the poison from that Widow and the Miasma are reaking havac on his system. I gave him more of the antidote he brought along and it seem to be helping a little but I do not know what else to do." Sango said as she placed a cool damp cloth on Ryu's forehead.
"He seems to be resting better though." Kagome said as she sat up.
"You seem to be doing better as well Kagome. I'm sure if he didn't place my mask over your face you might not have made it through the first night." Sango replied.
"Yeah, I'm sure your right." Kagome replied.
"Feeling hungry Kagome? I made some ramen soup for us." Inuyasha said bringing in a bowl of ramen.
"Thanks Inuyasha." She said looking up at him.
Inuyasha handed Sango a bowl of ramen and gave one to Kagome as well before sitting down to eat his own. They continued to talk among themselves as they ate their food.
"Kagome what happend in the Widow's chamber again?" Sango asked.
"I was in and out of it. But I could almost swear I saw Ryu purify the Widow demon and her jewel." Kagome rpelied.
"Your saying he used the powers that a priestess has?" Sango asked confused.
The three of them were startaled when Ryu began talking in his sleep, "Mommy...Mommy were are you?"
"Is he dreaming?" Inuyasha asked.
Ryu tossed around in his sleep, "Where's my mommy?"
Kagome looked over at Ryu and saw tears running down his face. "I think it's more a nightmare or bad memory. He's crying."
"I'm going to take a look outside and see if this snowstorm is letter up yet." Sango said as she got up.
"I take the empty bowles and toss them." Inuyasha said as he walked off.
Kagome watched Ryu and thought to herself, "Hey is he dreaming of his mother?"
As Kagome watched him a spirit of a lady bathed in a white light kneeled next to Ryu. Ryu seemed to calm down as the lady brushed her hand through his hair.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked.
"I'm his mother. He was calling out to me." She replied.
"You didn't come to take him away?" Kagome asked.
"Not his time. He has a lot more good to do before that happens." She told kagome.
"He was dreaming about you." Kagome said.
"I know. He was dreaming about the day I had died." She replied.
The lady looked at kagome and asked, "Can you do me a favor?"
"Sure." Kagome replied.
"Give a message to my son when he wakes up." The lady said and told Kagome the message.
"Kagome made a mental note to remember the entire message she was given. Soon after getting this message the spirit of his mother left.
The falling morning when everyone woke up they didn't find Ryu in his bed. Kagome senced the jewel was above them on the second floor. The three of them walked upstairs to towards a large open room.
"Ryu, are you ok?" Kagome asked.
"I see it's been snowing. So this why we have not left yet?" Ryu asked.
"It's been snowing the last two days." Sango replied then asked, "Lord Ryu are you feeling better?"
"Yes. The antidote you packed helped clean the toxins from my system and the jewel repaird the damage to my body." Ryu replied.
"Will you excause us for a few minutes. I wish to talk with Ryu alone for a few moments." Kagome said looking at Inuyasha and Sango.
Sango and Inuyasha left the room. Kagome walked over to the window where Ryu was standing and looked up at him.
"What you wanna talk to me about?" Ryu asked.
"Your mother came to visit you yesterday when you were still sick. She gave a message to me that is ment for you." She replied.
"What the message?" Ryu asked.
"Tell my son I love him and how proud I am of him helping those in need. If he is unsure of what has happen to him lately that he can get answers from the head priestess at my school." Kagome told him.
"Did she say anything else?" He asked.
"No." Kagome said.
"Wonder how we are getting out of this town now that it's under at least two feet of snow." Ryu asked.
"Lord Sesshoumaru told us over the radio that he would send some people in to get us out once it had stopped snowing." Kagome replied.
Ryu continuied to look at the window. Kagome stood there starring at him until he asked, "Something else you wanted?"
"What happend after you got captured?" Kagome asked.
"Hard to explain. I felt Widow crawling through my mind like she had before. She wanted to know how to get passed the barrier of my valley. But the deeper she went the worse I felt inside." Ryu said.
"What happend then?" Kagome asked.
"I heared a female voice say "Have faith." I focused my mind on protecting my body. The next thing I knew the webbing holding me vanished and Widow was purified. I seem to have a white aura surrounding me and when I picked up her blackened jewel it to was purified." Ryu told her.
"After that you cut me loose and got me out of there. But why did you give me Sango's mask if you knew the Miasma would only worsen the effect of the widows toxins inside of you?" Kaogme asked.
"Inuyasha would have been crushed if you had died after I promised to save your life." Ryu replied.
Later that afternoon a snow truck pulled up in front of the house to get Ryu and the others. Once inside the truck they pulled away and headed back towards Ryu's valley.
During the ride Ryu picked up a pad of paper and just began to write. When he was asked what he was writing all he would say is, "Writing down notes for my report."
To be continued...
